Industrial Organization.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

Members of the NBER's Industrial Organization Program met February 4-5 in Stanford, CA and on Zoom. Faculty Research Fellows Giulia Brancaccio and Christopher Conlon, both of New York University, and Research Associate Alan T. Sorensen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Benjamin Friedrich, Northwestern University; Martin B. Hackmann, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER; Adam Kapor, Princeton University and NBER; Sofia J. Moroni, University of Pittsburgh; and Anne B. Nandrup, VIVE, "Interdependent Values in Matching Markets: Evidence from Medical School Programs in Denmark"

* Kaiwen Leong, Nanyang Technological University; Huailu Li, Fudan University; and Nicola Pavanini and Christoph Walsh, Tilburg University, "The Welfare Effects of Law Enforcement in the Illegal Money Lending Market"

* Christoph Graf, Stanford University; Federico Quaglia, Terna S.p.A.; and Frank A. Wolak, Stanford University and NBER, "Simplified Market Mechanisms for Non-convex Markets: Evidence from the Italian Electricity Market"

* Luis Gonzales, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Koichiro Ito, University of Chicago and NBER; and Mar Reguant, Northwestern University and NBER, "The Value of Infrastructure and Market Integration: Evidence from Renewable Expansion in Chile"

* James M. Brand, Microsoft, "Differences in Differentiation: Rising Variety and Markups in Retail Food Stores"

* Sophie Calder-Wang, University of Pennsylvania, "The...